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ARIANE LABED VANGELIS MOURIKIS EVANGELIA RANDOU YORGOS LANTHIMOS Written and Directed by ATHINA RACHEL TSANGARI

BELLA Did you like it?

MARINA I’ve never had something wriggling in my mouth before.

BELLA How does my tongue feel?

MARINA Like a slug. It’s disgusting.

BELLA You have to breathe, or you’ll choke.

MARINA Should I open again?

BELLA Half open... That’s it.

MARINA Οkay, get in there.

…

You’re all slobbery. I’m going to throw up.

BELLA If it’s not wet in there, it won’t work.

Written & Directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari2010 / Greece / 95’35mm, 1:1.85, Color, Dolby Digital, Greek

There is more meaning, and mutual

understanding, in exchanging a glance

with a gorilla, than any other animal I

know. And so if ever there was a possibility

of escaping the human condition, and

living imaginatively in another creature’s

world, it must be with the gorilla.

SIR DAvID AttENBoRough, Life on earth

Written & Directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari2010 / Greece / 95’35mm, 1:1.85, Color, Dolby Digital, Greek

I made a film about four people who

happen to be at the same place for a

short period of time. Three people who

become four and then two. Three, of

course, being the only perfect number

in any relation.

DIREctoR’S StAtEMENt

Marina, 23, is growing up with her architect father in a prototype factory town by

the sea. Finding the human species strange and repellent, she keeps her distance.

Instead she chooses to observe it through the songs of Suicide, the mammal

documentaries of Sir David Attenborough, and the sexual-education lessons she

receives from her only friend, Bella.

A stranger comes to town and challenges her to a foosball duel, on her own table.

Her father meanwhile ritualistically prepares for his exit from the 20th century,

which he considers to be “overrated.” Caught between the two men and her

collaborator, Bella, Marina investigates the wondrous mystery of the human fauna.

SyNopSIS

2010 / Greece / 95’

Marina Ariane LabedSpyros Vangelis MourikisBella Evangelia RandouEngineer Yorgos LanthimosUndertaker Kostas BerikopoulosHospital Manager Michel Demopoulos

Written & Directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari

Executive Producer Christos V. KonstantakopoulosProducers Maria Hatzakou Yorgos Lanthimos Iraklis Mavroidis Athina Rachel Tsangari Angelos Venetis Associate producer Kostas Kefalas

Director of Photography Thimios BakatakisSound Leandros NtounisProduction Designer Dafni KalogianniCostume Designers Thanos Papastergiou Vassilia RozanaEditors Sandrine Cheyrol Matt JohnsonCasting Alex Kelly & Christine Akzotis Athens CastingLine Producer Boo Productions / Sevi Morou Production Manager Yorgos SerdarisAssistant Directors Emmanuela Fragiadaki Anna Nikolaou

Production Haos FilmCo-production Greek Film Center Faliro House Productions Boo Productions Stefi Productions With the support of the MEDIA Programme of the European Union35MM, 1:1.85, coLoR, DoLBy DIgItAL, gREEk

[MARINA]Ariane Labed was born in 1984 in Athens, to French parents. She grew up between Greece, Germany and France. After studying dance for 10 years, she studied ‘Practice and Theory of Art’ at Université de Provence. A founding member of Vasistas Theatre Company, she has acted in all their performances. She has also acted at the Greek National Theatre.

[BELLA]Evangelia Randou was born in Greece. She graduated from the State School of Dance in Athens. She collaborates as a dancer with several dance companies in Greece, Cyprus and Germany. She was co-choreographer on Dimitris Papaioannou’s team for the opening and closing ceremonies of ATHENS 2004 Olympic Games, and a soloist on the night of the opening ceremony. In 2005, she had the lead role in Yorgos Lanthimos’ first film Kinetta. In 2008, she played Medea in the dance-theater performance by D. Papaioannou, presented in Athens and Beijing.

[SpyRoS]Vangelis Mourikis studied and acted in several films and avant-garde projects in Australia before he returned to his native Greece to become one of its most celebrated cinema actors. He has earned five Greek State Film Awards for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor. He collaborates with independent filmmakers in Greece and abroad.

[thE ENgINEER]Yorgos Lanthimos was born in Athens. He studied directing for Film and Television at the Stavrakos Film School. Throughout the 90’s he directed a series of videos for Greek dance-theatre companies. Since 1995, he has directed numerous TV commercials in addition to music videos, short films and experimental theatre plays. His first film Kinetta played at Toronto and Berlin. His latest feature Kynodontas (Dogtooth) won the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes in 2009, followed by awards at festivals worldwide. He is in post-production on his next film Alps, jointly produced by him and Athina Rachel Tsangari.

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[DIREctoR-WRItER-pRoDucER]Athina Rachel Tsangari received a B.A. in Literature from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, an M.A. in Performance Studies from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, and an MFA in Film Directing from the University of Texas at Austin. Her introduction to cinema was a small role in Richard Linklater’s seminal film Slacker. Her first short film FIT was a finalist at the Student Academy Awards. Her debut feature The Slow Business of Going, a lo-fi-sci-fi road movie shot in nine cities across the world, was voted one of the “best undistributed films” in the 2002 Village Voice Critics’ Poll. She co-founded and was artistic director of the Austin-based Cinematexas International Short Film Festival (1997-2007). She was the projections designer and video director for the Athens 2004 Olympic Games Opening & Closing Ceremonies. In 2005, she founded Haos Film, a production office that develops and produces work by and with fellow filmmakers. Amongst her producer credits are Yorgos Lanthimos’ films Kinetta, Dogtooth as an associate producer, and his upcoming Alps. In 2009, she directed the animation film “Reflections” for the opening of the new Acropolis Museum designed by Bernard Tschumi, where it screened as a large scale, site-specific projection. Her sophomore feature Attenberg premiered at the 2010 Venice Film Festival official competition, and received the Coppa Volpi Award for Best Actress for its protagonist, Ariane Labed.

Fit, 8’, fiction, 1994

The Slow Business of Going, 101’, fiction, 2001

Kinetta, by Yorgos Lanthimos, fiction, 95’, 2005 (producer)

Palestine Blues, by Nida Sinnokrot, 72’, documentary, 2006 (producer/co-cinematographer/co-editor)

2, by Dimitris Papaioannou, 96’, Dance-theatre screen adaptation, 2007

Instant Instants, travelogue, China & Southeast Asia, 2008-2011

Kynodontas (Dogtooth), by Yorgos Lanthimos, fiction, 96’, 2009 (associate producer)

Antikatoptrismoi (Reflections), 68’, animation, 2009

Attenberg, 95’, fiction, 2010

a tender but deadpan anthropological black comedy … it’s an imaginative

curio of animal gestures whose emotional power creeps up on you

NIck JAMES, SIght & SouND

it has a furious, racing pulse, which spikes as thrillingly and irregularly as a

purposefully miscalibrated drum machine

ADAM NAyMAN, cINEMAScopE

finds the perfect formula to invent, in the feminine, a film at once both

intense and gentlecAhIERS Du cINEMA

impressive … a captivating and vaguely disturbing experience

vARIEty

the most awkward sex of the yeartWItchFILM

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